Chaos vs. Havoc — What's the Difference?

Complete disorder and confusion

Widespread destruction

A condition or place of great disorder or confusion.

Lay waste to; devastate.

A disorderly mass; a jumble

Widespread destruction; devastation.

Often Chaos The disordered state of unformed matter and infinite space supposed in some cosmogonic views to have existed before the ordered universe.

Disorder or chaos

Chaos theory.

To destroy or pillage.

(Mathematics) A dynamical system that has a sensitive dependence on its initial conditions.

Widespread devastation and destruction.

(Obsolete) An abyss; a chasm.

Mayhem.

The unordered state of matter in classical accounts of cosmogony.

To pillage.

Any state of disorder; a confused or amorphous mixture or conglomeration.

To cause havoc.

(mathematics) A behaviour of iterative non-linear systems in which arbitrarily small variations in initial conditions become magnified over time.

A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

(fantasy) One of the two metaphysical forces of the world in some fantasy settings, as opposed to law.

Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste.

(obsolete) A vast chasm or abyss.

To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.

A given medium; a space in which something exists or lives; an environment.

A cry in war as the signal for indiscriminate slaughter.

An empty, immeasurable space; a yawning chasm.

Violent and needless disturbance

The confused, unorganized condition or mass of matter before the creation of distinct and orderly forms.

Any confused or disordered collection or state of things; a confused mixture; confusion; disorder.

A state of extreme confusion and disorder

The formless and disordered state of matter before the creation of the cosmos

(Greek mythology) the most ancient of gods; the personification of the infinity of space preceding creation of the universe

(physics) a dynamical system that is extremely sensitive to its initial conditions